Tips/New Products Week Day 1 – Bazzill Stitch’z

Ok – here goes Day 1! We’ll see if I can actually manage to get one up every day now! So the first day is a New Product review. Now I don’t know that these will all actually be new products, but they are new to me. I got two sets of Bazzill Stitch’z from eclecticpaperie and here’s what I think of them….

First of all, here’s what they look like:

I got both sets that eclectic carries. One is a stitching set and the other is flowers and stems. In retrospect, I don’t know that I needed the flowers and stems one…..I’m not even sure what I will do with them yet. But we’ll see! They come with a nifty metal ring to store them on, which is nice. The stitching ones are long enough to do a 12 in strip with. I think for scrapbooking, this would be handy. They also have black lines to show you what stitch they are meant to do – very cool if you want to draw the stitching in, but you can just leave it for a pierced pattern as well. Here’s what I did with it.

I really think they are a bit more geared for scrapbooking as they are 12 in templates (and the flowers are a good size too). The spacing is also a bit wide for a card for some of the patterns. I think some of the stitches are fine for a card, and I love that you can see through it (my issue with the metal Lasting Impressions template) and it fits a whole card front without having to re-align it (my issue with the SU template). So……it has some definite pluses. I think that I am still in search of the perfect template, but this is definitely a step in the right direction!